“The Honor of Justice and Humanity” Thoughts on the Responsibility of Scientists in Connection with the Portrait Volumes I-IV of Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
“The Honor of Justice and Humanity” Thoughts on the Responsibility of Scientists in Connection with the Portrait Volumes I-IV of Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Summary/Abstract: In the first volume of the series Portraits of Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Lajos Vékás writes about his former mentor, Miklós Világhy (1916–1980), a private law scholar and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences that following the purges after 1948, thanks to the work of Világhy “and a few of his fellow professors, generations of lawyers were able to learn the value of law, legality, justice, and humanity in a historical era that did not teach these values.” In the 21st-century European milieu, plagued by postmodern crises, the question remains relevant: are scientists willing and able to communicate their findings to their professional audience and to society at large in a way that also serves the cause of justice and humanity?

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